Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6409 28 May 2026, 11:34

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 163 0 0 0 0 163 21 0 21 20:57.668 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.628
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.279
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.086
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.349
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.513
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.825
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.293
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.329
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.745
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.368
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.143
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.539
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.690
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.542
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
30.210
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.585
And the system is very low on memory 3.657
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.213
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.653
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.106
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.376
And I free up some memory 0.860
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.696
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.283
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.534
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.290
And all tps features are active 1.302
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.966
When I disable the first tps feature 3.104
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.318
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.721
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.688
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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13.332
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.965
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.508
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.100
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.374
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.134
And I disable the first tps feature 2.611
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.868
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
43.666
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.158
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 13.446
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.165
When I write some files expected to persist 1.282
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.619
# XXX: The next step succeeds (and the --debug output confirms that it's actually looking for the files) but will fail in a subsequent scenario restoring the same snapshot. This exactly what we want, but why does it work? What is guestfs's behaviour when qcow2 internal snapshots are involved? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 11.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:46.717
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.563
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.702
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.455
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.342
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.898
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.375
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.123
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.068
Tags: @product
40.621
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.970
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.072
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.307
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:53.402
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.864
When I enable persistence 15.360
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.741
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.498
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.317
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.228
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.585
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.898
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.204
When I cold reboot the computer 10.470
And the computer reboots Tails 37.329
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.298
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.241
Given I enable persistence 8.550
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.285
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.286
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:7.756
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.083
# Note that if anything fails after the passphrase was changed and
# before it's changed back below, subsequent scenarios might fail
# because the Persistent Storage doesn't have the expected passphrase.
When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage 27.169
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.368
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.237
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
39.077
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.899
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.111
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.752
And all notifications have disappeared 8.048
When I delete the persistent partition 2.831
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:22.971
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.911
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.933
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.823
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
41.621
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.356
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.319
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.331
And all notifications have disappeared 7.854
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.360
And all tps features are enabled 1.077
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:6.313
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 32.691
And I enable persistence 20.929
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.277
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.658
And persistence is enabled 1.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.132
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.423
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.960
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.094
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.742
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.523
When I enable persistence 6.941
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.284
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.302
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.659
When I try to enable persistence 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.277
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.422
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.159
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.709
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.420
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.675
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 12.071
And all notifications have disappeared 9.205
# Now both WhisperBack and Tor Browser has started at the same
# time, so we do not know which window is focused. The steps about
# Tor Browser care about that, but the ones about WhisperBack do
# not, so we first deal with WhisperBack and then kill it to
# ensure that Tor Browser is focused.
Then WhisperBack is prefilled for fsck with summary: "Failed to repair the file system of your Persistent Storage" 0.229
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.359
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.177
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.342
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.898
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.660
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.702
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.354
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.267
When I log in to a new session 11.744
And all notifications have disappeared 8.611
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.550
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000